21 Facts About Gore Verbinski

Gregor Justin "Gore" Verbinski was born on March 16,1964 and is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Gore Verbinski is best known for directing Mouse Hunt, The Ring, the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films, and Rango.

For Rango, Verbinski won both the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film.

Gore Verbinski was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the fourth of five children of Laurette Ann and Victor Vincent Gore Verbinski, a nuclear physicist.

In 1967, the Gore Verbinski family moved to Southern California, where a young Gregor grew up in the town of La Jolla.

Gore Verbinski went to Torrey Pines Elementary, Muirlands Junior High, and La Jolla High School, before attending UCLA Film School.

Gore Verbinski played guitar in the Daredevils, Bulldozer with John Thum, Mike Parma and Wiggy, the Drivers, and the all-star band the Cylon Boys Choir.

Gore Verbinski was in a band called the Little Kings, which backed Stiv Bators on his version of "Have Love Will Travel" with amateur drummer Chris "Poobah" Bailey.

Gore Verbinski's first films were a series of 8 mm films called The Driver Files c 1979, when he was a young teen.

Gore Verbinski moved from music videos to commercials, where he worked for many brand names including Nike, Coca-Cola, Canon, Skittles and United Airlines.

Gore Verbinski followed it up with the horror film remake The Ring, which struck gold globally, grossing well over $200 million worldwide.

Gore Verbinski had a directorial hand in The Time Machine that year, temporarily taking over for an exhausted Simon Wells.

Gore Verbinski directed some of the underground Morlock sequences and is given a "Thanks to" credit in the film.

Gore Verbinski then directed the very successful Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl which earned over $600 million at the international box office.

In 2008, Gore Verbinski's Blind Wink production company signed a deal with Universal.

Gore Verbinski was set to direct a film for Universal based on the video game BioShock.

Gore Verbinski was then replaced by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo as director and the film was cancelled.

In 2011 and 2013, Gore Verbinski would delve into the Western genre, with decidedly different results: Rango was well received, critically and commercially, and earned the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

In 2012, Gore Verbinski announced three films in development at Blind Wink; the Western Bitterroot, the sci-fi film Spaceless, and a live action film based on the board game Clue.

Gore Verbinski was set to next direct a film centering around the character Gambit, within the X-Men film universe, before dropping out of the project in January 2018.

Gore Verbinski was involved with Matter, an original futuristic videogame that was being developed for the Xbox 360 using Kinect.